Quotes About Freedom

Evoking the events of 10 May 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt declared: We all know that books burn. But we know still better that books can never be destroyed by fire. Men die, but books never die. No man and no violence can extinguish their memory. No man and no violence can lock ideas up for ever in a concentration camp. No man and no violence can chase from the world the works that express the eternal struggle of humanity against tyranny. We know that, in this War, books are weapons.

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She didn't like being stuck indoors because of a bully.

If you want to get out of that crib, stand up and be an American.

Batty ran up, her hands cupped together. "I caught one named Horatio," she said, and spread open her hands. A lightning bug balanced uncertainly on her thumb. "Look, he's blinking," said Jane. "He's trying to tell us something in Morse code." "What?" asked Batty. "Please... let... me... go," said Jane.

drowned or run away to Canada.

They lifted their faces to the astonishing warmth. The sky arched over them, a pale, clear blue. Lina felt as though a lid that had been on her all her life had been lifted off. Light and air rushed though her, making a song, like the songs of Ember, only it was a song of joy. She looked at Doon and saw that he was smiling and crying at the same time, and she realized that she was, too.

It's good to sometimes let things go. And people, too," she added.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.

I've never worried about age.

All the world's a cage.

There is no life without regrets. Every important choice has its benefits and its deficits, whether or not people admit it or even recognize the fact: no mother has the radical, lifelong freedom that is essential for my happiness. I will never know the intimacy with, or have the impact on, a child that a mother has. Losses, including the loss of future possibilities, are inevitable in life; nobody has it all.

O Liberty Liberty how many crimes are committed in thy name

Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are

People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop-room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

I am condemned to be free.